Renovated gym inaugurated at NU

The Vice-Chancellor Prof. J.K. Patnaik inaugurated the newly renovated Gymnasium at Nagaland University Lumami on June 3, in the presence of HoDs, faculty, officers, staff, research scholars and students.
In addition, the sports section led by DDS, Dr. Harish Tiwari, also organised the Yoga and Fitness Competition under the Yoga Sangam Countdown Program of the Common Yogal Protocol, which was part of a series of activities for the upcoming International Day of Yoga on June 21.
Prof. Patnaik expressed happiness with the renovated gymnasium while also exhorting the students, faculty and staff to make full use of the facilities made available.
Prizes were given to the winners for the various Yoga poses under the category of employees, research scholars and PG students. In the fitness competition, the first position for bench press was won by Prof. Ambrish Singh, Dept of Chemistry in the male category and Dr. Manasi Debnath, Dept of Geography in the female category. Among research scholars, Raplang, Dept of Chemistry and T. Ngipwen, Dept of Chemistry won first position in the male and female categories respectively. For the PG students, Nosavi, Dept of Sociology and Wewu-U Kapya, Dept of Geography won first position in the male and female categories respectively.
For squat competition, the winners were Prof. Ambrish Singh, Dept of Chemistry (male) and Dr. Manasi Debnath, Dept of Geography (female category) among employees; Raplang, Dept of Chemistry (male) and Manthai (female) among research scholars; Nosavi, Dept of Sociology (male) and Wewu-U Kapya, Dept of Geography (female) among PG students.
The compere for the programme was sports coach, Watimenba Longchar, while the vote of thanks was proposed by coach Amritpal Singh.